Pink landscapes: 1/f spectra of spatial environmental variability and bird community composition

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1502, 2002, Pages 1791-1796

  Storch, David ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Cepák, Jaroslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird communities; Fractals; Heterogeneity; Scaling; Species area relationship; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

AVES;

EID: 53149117075     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2076     Document Type: Article

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